CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2016 NATIONAL TRIG-STAR WINNERS

The Richard E. Lomax National Trig-Star Awards are as follows:

1st Place:  Collin Free, Syracuse High School, Syracuse, UT

2nd Place: Avi Swartz, Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, CO

3rd Place:  Aaron Sun, Ed W. Clark High School, Las Vegas, NV

Collin Free

Avi Swartz

Aaron Sun

 The Richard E. Lomax National Teaching Excellence Awards are as follows:

1st Place:   Ashley Martin, Syracuse High School, Syracuse, UT

2nd Place:  Dotty Dady, Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, CO

3rd Place:   Saundra D. Jordan, Ed W. Clark High School, Las Vegas, NV

The first place student receives $2,000, second place student receives $1,000, and third place student receives $500.  The first place teacher receives $1,000, second place teacher receives $500, and third place teacher receives $250.  The Trig-Star Policy states that “the National Student and Teacher Awards be given to the winning students at or before the next state professional land surveying organization conference of the student’s home state.”

The following is a list of the remaining State Winners in the order of finish:

Junhee Lee, Iowa; Veronica Xinyu Gu, Minnesota; Thomas Szczesniak, Michigan; Dagin Lin, Connecticut; John Mastroberti, South Carolina; Yiwei Lyu, Pennsylvania; Tao Lu, Texas; Antonio Faraci, New York; Qingfeng Li, Wyoming; Giovanni Budi, North Carolina; Stephan Terry, Delaware; Alan Zho, South Dakota; Veronica Lahony Suarez Torres, Puerto Rico; Noah Paladino, New Jersey; Elizabeth Asp, North Dakota; William Quinn Marsh, California; Andrew Reimer-Berg, Oregon; Zander Rossman, Wisconsin; Travis Casey, Kansas; William Zhang, Alabama; Jelisa Holmquist, Montana; William Luqiu, Virginia; Nicholas Lillis, Maine; Walter Johnson, Kentucky; Madison Gaines, Maryland; Thomas Pointer, Missouri; Jeffery Mayolo, Washington; Timothy Kammerer, New Hampshire; Christian Lynch, Massachusetts; Wyatt Evan Turner, Georgia; Joel Niemi, Ohio; Haoxiang Li, Illinois; Tingyi Lu, Indiana; Drake Thomas, Alaska; Kael Stelek, Idaho.